![]() Knowing she was on to a good thing, she quickly returned home, the single was recorded with Tony Hatch, no stranger to number 1s from female singers, and (There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me was rush-released in September. Taylor went to America to look for a song to save Shaw, and heard Johnson’s version. Cheesy, but memorable, unlike Shaw’s debut single, As Long as You’re Happy Baby, which got her nowhere. She secured Goodrich, then only 17, a recording contract with Pye Records in 1964, and came up with the name Sandie Shaw. The young poster-to-be was spotted by Adam Faith, also on the bill, who had two number 1s under his belt – What Do You Want? (1959) and Poor Me (1960).Īfterwards Faith introduced her to his manager, Eve Taylor. She came second in a talent show and got to perform at a charity concert in London. Goodrich went to work at the local Ford Dagenham factory after leaving school, with some part-time modelling on the side. ![]() She was raised in Dagenham, Essex and at the age of six would entertain her aunt with her rendition of Guy Mitchell’s She Wears Red Feathers. ![]() Sandie Shaw was born Sandra Ann Goodrich on 26 February 1947. Sandie Shaw made the song her own, and the song helped make her one of the UK’s most famous female stars of the swinging 60s. Dionne Warwick had recorded a demo version in 1963, but it was soul singer Lou Johnson who first charted with it in the US during the summer of 1964. ![]() Sandie Shaw’s first and best chart-topper was yet another classic from Burt Bacharach and Hal David. ![]()
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